“I hear you about not wanting the feds to meddle even more in our lives. But for President and VP? Those are the only nationally elected pols so you’d have chaos if every state could set its own rules.”
Every state has its own vote counting rules and ballot eligibility rules. Chaos? In a way, but look at Iran —
Mullahs of Iran can decide who is eligible to run. That gives them oligarchial power and makes the theocracy strong. We would have oligarchs if we too surrender too much eligibility authority to the Federal government.
As it was, the House Speaker can write an eligibility form, and Pelosi perverted that process for Obama.
I did not know the HOR could write an eligibility form. Pelosi stopped it with Obama, I get that. But Republicans have controlled the HOR for over two years now. So why haven't they done it? Why didn't Cruz encourage it?